Cigar-maker&#39;s moistening device.



S; BERGER CIGAR MAKERS MOISTENING DEVICE APPLIOATION FILED AUG.20, 1914.

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SAM UEL BERGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-MAKERS MOISTENING DEVICE.

Specification ofletters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, rain.

Application filed August 20, 1914. Serial No. 857,643.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BERGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the. clty,

county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Cigar-Makers Moistening Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a convenient finger-moistening device for use by cigar-makers and their assistants, Whereby certain of the operations of cigar making may be facilitated and the unsanitary mouth-wetting which is commonly practised may be obviated.

The device is an improvement in the type wherein a roller turns in a water receptacle, and is characterized by certain features presently to be described, insuring easy op eration and a proper degree of moistening of the fingers, and at the same time guarding against any undesirable spattering or drenching of the tobacco.

Tn the accompanyingdrawings showing as illustrative the preferred embodiment of the invention: Figure 1 is a plan view of the device; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section; Fig. 8 is a cross-section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4. is a cross-section] on the line 44 of Fig. 2.

The receptacle 2 is oblong, having vertical end and side walls and preferably of zip proximately the size and proportions shown; and its bottom may be provided with a piece of felt or the like 3 to keep it from slipping. The roller 4 is disposed transversely of the receptacle, preferably nearer one end thereof than the other, and is removable, its journals 5 being received in open-top bearings 6, which are closed at the outer sides to prevent escape of water. As shown, these hearings may be formed by downwardly tapering slots in the inner sides of the side walls; but manifestly the specific constructoin may be varied. A top wall 7 preferably formed integral with the receptacle, covers the interior thereof at one side of the roller, extending from its lower edge, which is adjacent the side and top portion of the roller, gradually upward to the end of the receptacle. This/top wall constitutes a wiping surface over which the fingers pass from the roller, its function being to remove excess moisture and to return the same to the receptacle and also to insure moistening of the fingers for about half their length and its elfectiveness being due in part to the transversely concaved formation clearly shown in Fig. 4. At the upper end the'slopeis substantially higher than the top of the roller, and its highest point is preferably in a longitudinal central plane,

as will be clear by reference to Fig. 4. Fur

ther details of preferred construction are shown in F 1g. 1, wherein the concaved slopmg surface 1S represented as terminating at the upper end in an arc, outside of which the corners of the receptacle are rounded oif at.8, while the lower end of the surface or wall is slightly incurved, in order to clear the roller at the middle without being too far from it at the sides. The rounding off or truncation of the corners 8 is desirable in that it permits the fingers to slip off readily onto the surface to bemoistened. At the opposite side of the roller a baflie or wing '9 slopes downward comparatively steeply frplm the end wall at that side, toward the ro er. above the roller, and its lower edge is lower than the lower end of the wiping surface 7 and suitably near the roller. This wing affords a stop for the tips of the fingers and guides the same down'upon the roller, and in conjunction with the lower edge of the wiping surfaces gages the extent of roller surface which is engaged. It also serves to prevent water spattering out at this side of the roller. The wing and wiping surface are spaced a distance such as to permit the roller to be inserted and removed between them into and out of its open bearings. The roller is provided with an absorbent jacket 10 of elastic webbing, which fits the body of the roller snugly and is at the same time easily removable when soiled. i

In use, the bunch-maker or cigar-maker in finishing or re-fiXin-g the bunch holds 'the same on the table adjacent the moistening device, with one hand, and draws the fingers of the other hand, preferably the first three only, over the exposed top of the roller and along the wiping surface 7, thus taking upon his fingers just the proper amount of moisture, which he applies to the binder. Commonly, for lackof a suitable device. the bunch-maker applies the necessary moisture by carrying the bunch to his lips, and if the ciganmaker has to re-fix it he moistens the binder in the same way and at the same place which has been touched by the mouth of the bunch-maker.

The upperend of this part is also I am aware that roller moistening devices have been designed for various purposes, but none, I believe, which possesses the capabilities of'my invention.

What I claim as new is:

, LA device of the character described, comprising an oblong water receptacle, a roller iournaled therein below the top thereof and near one end of the receptacle, a short wing wall sloping steeply down into proximity to one side of the roller at the said end of the receptacle, and a, relatively long and gently sloping top wall extending upward at the opposite side of the roller and affording a wiping surface for the fingers.

comprising an oblong water receptacle, a roller journa'led therein below the top thereof, a short wing wall at the rear end of the receptacle sloping steeply down into proximity to one side of the roller, and a relatively long and gently sloping top wall eX- tending upward at the opposite side of the roller to the top of the front wall of the receptacle, said top wall being transversely concaved and affording a wiping surface for the fingers, and said front wall of the receptacle being substantially vertical and unobstructed.

A device of the character described, comprising an oblong water receptacle, a

roller journaled therein below the top thereof and near one end, a short wing wall sloping steeply down into proximity to one side of the roller, and a relatively long and gently sloping, transversely concaved top wall extending upward at the opposite side 2. A device of the character described,

of the roller to the remote end wall of the receptacle, said end wall being substantially vertical and unobstructed, and the upper corners of thetop wall being rounded off. A

4. A' device of the characterdescribed, comprising an oblong water receptacle, a roller journaled therein below the top thereof, a short wing wall sloping steeply d'own i into proximity to one side of the roller, and arelatively long and gently sloping top wall extending upward at the opposite side of the roller and affording a wiping surface for the fingers, the lower end of the slope of the wing wall being materially lower than the lower end of the wiping surface.

5. A device of the character described,

comprising an oblong water receptacle, a roller journaled therein below the top thereofand having projecting trunnions, a short wing wall sloping steeply down into proximity to one side of the roller, a relatively long and gently sloping top wall extending upward at the opposite side of the roller and affording a wiping surface for the fingers, said wing wall and top wall being spaced sufiiciently to permit the insertion and removal of the roller between them, and

open bearings in the side walls of the receptacle receiving'said ,trunnions and being closed at the outer sides. V

In witness whereof I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. V v

SAMUEL BERGER.

lYitnesses! I i J. F. BRANDENBURG, ELSIE GREENBERGER. 

